We can put a man on the moon, carry 1,000,000 songs on an mp3 player the size of a quarter, send digital signals across airwaves, and even carry a device that allows us to call, take videos, play games and keep track of our schedules and call it a pda. But the cure for the common cold eludes us..
I'm sick, Keagan did it :P
I haven't posted/written much I've been buried in my home. I just spent nearly the entire day sorting our household paperwork. Going through years of papers to get rid of stuff that isnt' worth saving. I am feeling good about getting it done but at the same time.. wow old paper can be dusty. Ok.. my break is over... miss everyone.
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I decided I had to do at least one of my housecleaning to-dos yesterday.. so I cleaned the laundry room.. well actually only got half done as it was way worse than I ever imagined. I can not begin to describe the layer of gunk that was under the washer & dryer.. I pulled them out.. and steamed the floor with my shark steamer.. (an amazing product by the way I can't imagine how else that stuff would have came up) .. but my floor is nice in there now.. and it will last for about a week. It's the room that gets the traffic and with that the dirt and since it's the walkway from garage to home it will never remain clean but at least my appliances are white again with no visible dried on laundry detergent and the floor is clean .. my plan today is to finish by moving my christmas decoration bins onto the top shelf and reorganizing the cleaning products on the next shelf..
Oh and I read another book How to Cheat at Cleaning by Jeff Bredenberg.. I am glad I got it at the library I'd be mad if I bought it. It borders on annoying and I am probably not going to thoroughly read it.. though I keep thinking it can't just be about using disposable everything... in some instances I think disposables the best choice but not for all cleaning.. he doesn't literally say that but that's the feel from this reader's perspective. He says some things I think are good to hear, like to focus on important stuff. And his commercial cleaning (clean during commercials just small tasks) .. anyway thats my short review it's an ok read..
Off to work on my to-dos :)
I'm exhausted.. Keagan was up all night. I'm trying not to use it as a bailout excuse today but frankly all my grand plans of organizing and cleaning out the door.. and now my 13 yr old is hitting me up for a check for $25 for a photo of the 8th grade class.. due today.. gotta have it now or I wont get it.. I'm so tired.
Read more...Posted a postcard exchange at Get It Scrapped.. thought it'd be fun to do a little mailing between friends.. then have postcards from friends or even use it as ephemera on pages! While searching for postcards I liked.. I realized postcards have seriously become under-rated! I am going to single-handidly try to bring them back.. ok not really by myself but I bought quite a few postcards and decided to keep them on hand.. they are so easy to jot a quick note on.. cheaper postage and bam! a little love in the mail to someone! 
Can't wait to send them out!
Here's my favorite postcard that didn't make the cut (I had to limit myself I had so many I liked) so if you are in the exchange no worries.. yours will be a card sans 'Poop'.
Ok maybe it's my sick sense of humor but for whatever reason it cracked me up.. can you imagine delivering this? Or going through your bills upon bills and junk mail upon junk mail and then seeing this postcard..
This and many other postcards can be found here: CafePress That's not an ad just sharing a cool place to get some funny postcards.. though becareful if you have kids.. some postcards are definitely not for the young eyes. Ooh.. and do a search at that site for Get It Scrapped they have some logo merchandise for sale too (now that's an ad LOL ok not really I get nothing from it but love that place and until I convert everyone I'll never shut up about it .. :) )
Yes I'm blaming Dina Wakley for my new youtube addiction... she teaches at Get It Scrapped and I took Art Journaling .. both 101 & 102.. and she had videos with the lessons so you could SEE what she was doing .. and now I go to do something on an art journal page and I look at youtube to see how to do something.. which leads to links to other videos.. and other videos.. and other videos..
Hours later I have lots of knowledge and nothing done! LOL
I love American Idol.. I love Biggest Loser and for no other reason that that.. I'm going to blog on them :)
I watched American Idol first.. and have to say I think this is by FAR my favorite season. I was so excited and not in a mean way when the top favorites 'Lil, Danny, etc. didn't do as well and the poor kids scrapping the bottom of the barrel (can we say Anoop) did great.. it isn't an in your face comment but rather an excitement that it will be a real competition rather than predicitability.. who wants to watch a superbowl game of the Lions vs. Steelers.. not as exciting. I have to say I really loved Adam's performance.. glad there is a risk taker! I like Megan and Anoop.. and I thought Kris did a great job!
Biggest Loser.. still annoyed with them not saying who Aubrey ate a cookie for! And Jillian is still on my nerves.. she's just gone weird this season with all her holier than though stuff.. (wont bore those who have heard this rant before LOL)
I am enjoying TV again.. my old friend is back!
I also have a few more books.. Visual Chronicles.. it's really enjoyable in it's simplicity.. just things to do like a color inspiration or journal prompts.. I also got the Journal Revolution Book by the same authors.. and some really weird cards called Wide Open that are to prompt me as well. No I don't need a prompt for everything I do.. but I enjoy having a push.. or challenging myself when I have only 5 minutes to do something.. having a prompt helps cut out the whole "what do I do" .. not to mention sometimes prompts will cause a journal snippet about something I wouldn't have thought to do .. my only hope is getting into a better routine so I can find those brief moments.
Off to do laundry....
It's no secret one class at Get It Scrapped and you're hooked.. but I really love the theme of the classes this season.. USE MY STUFF.. this next class is Garlands & Banners by Trish Turay.. 
And I already have ideas of making my niece one for her room and a cool birthday one for DS who is going to be 14 in a month.. and who knows what else!
ps. got my hair done, was going for some funky chunky highlights.. one color didn't take... and now I'm a blonde..
I ordered a bunch of books.. today two came and I LOVE them..
one is Taking Flight by Kelly Rae Roberts.. she is a collage artist and I haven't even read the book yet but her art is AMAZING and she teaches you how to do it and I can't wait to dig into this book...
The other is Life is a Verb by Patti Digh.. wow.. she lost her stepfather to lung cancer and he died 37 days after he was diagnosed.. it made her start pondering on living life to the fullest, what would you do with 37 days, etc. Lots of emotions stirring up with this because of my mother's battle and eventual loss to Scleroderma. It has little challenges to do and I am looking forward to doing some of the challenges..
I also am still enjoying Wreck this Journal and am looking forward to posting some pages this weekend to show you how I DESTROYED it.. (ok actually I haven't even gotten to those pages yet, having fun with the drawing and writing a word a million times pages LOL but I'll share what I get done!)
Keri Smith is a genius really.. well IMO.. This isn't the type of book that is going to move mountains or change the world by ending poverty or restore world peace.. what it will do.. is make you do unmentionable things to this book and enjoy it. Learn what "To create is to destroy" means. To create art you must destroy what was.. the blank canvas, the unused oil pastel... It seems like a *big* thing to me.. but I'm of a scrapbooker mind.. I buy pretty products and then hate using them because I don't want to ruin them.. this book is an exercise in learning that to fully appreciate an art supply, one must ruin it.. ;)
I started another round of march challenges at Get It Scrapped.. check out the first one here:
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Here's the example I did.. I was going to use the photo as a layout but then the art journaling class I took kind of took over and I started using all the techniques I"m learning there to grunge up and layer and just have a lot of fun getting a lot of ink under my nails!
Here's the page.. it's my 3yr olds shoes.. first shoes he wore out instead of out grew.. *sigh* he's a boy now :(
Now.. about this blog.. I'm seriously starting to think I'm entering my own midlife crisis... I would really like to get a layout and color scheme I love.. and a banner.. a beautiful banner that looks as cool as nearly everyone else's I see.. I couldn't quite do it but am hoping now that I will soon have another cool class under my belt I will be able to use some Mad Digital Skillz to do it..
Mad Digital Skillz is a class by Pattie Knox.. she's amazingly talented.. I'm most eager to learn masking techniques and digital brushes.. some free digital files.. I'm hoping to make a cool frame around the banner that I"m goin to make... and the cool thing is.. when you register you are eligible to win some amazing registration prizes. One being a cool digital tool from Wacom, check out more about it here.
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